Music Review:Adurs(Devi Sri Prasad)

by Srikanth Mantravadi

The music,here,is so mind numbingly entertaining,so enthralling,that I’m bored.Devi Sri Prasad is,afterall,that screwball,insouciant creature that he believes he can get away with the same crime for a godawful one more time.I laud him for his intrepidness and assuredness.This guy has got balls.He believes in his convictions and gives a shit to what the others think.But wouldn’t this tenacity be admirable in more apt,trying,situations.Moreover,tenacity is for meeting deadlines,fighting down-in-the-dumps situations.Instead,it is rather promiscuous skill that is required to craft wondrous things.Like music.Good,ofcourse.So,the moment I tune into Pilla Navalla Kadhu,which by the way features Mika Singh singing not in Punjabi nor Hindi but in Telugu and ironically in times when Mr Kammula wants to resurrect Maa Telugu Talliki,and the dhol beats start trickling in,I feel like banging my head on the hardest thing available near me.I make do with a pillow but how much more of the same? OK, the groove’s atleast there in Assalaam Valekhum(someone inform the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind) but the lyricist keeps coming up with curiouser and curiouser lines that they keep getting my goat.Neethone is atleast consistent-It is totally trite in all departments.Meanwhile,the harrying Chary need not tarry.All you unsuspecting,be wary.Parry this one.Out of this entire exercise if there is something that retains a modicum of interest,something worthwhile,something sensible,it is Chandrakala,which is sweetened by a certain Hariharan and is enlivened by a light classical touch.Moving on,suffice to say Shiva Shambho,the last track in this odious audiotrack,has DSP getting behind the mike.The sensible should take hint and scoot or put up with an insipid song whose hook vaguely resembles the,now trudge like,civil rights gospel ditty…We Shall Overcome.

Stop reviewing music in musical sense always!
Arya-2 was given one tear by you.By far in last one month,it’s tracks have been heard lakhs of times everywhere on tv,radio,ipods,mobiles.
If you live in A.P,you would have got pawned by yourself.

DSP gives what it demands.Yes,he is repetitive,but he does show brilliance always,his tracks are full of energy,you just repeat karthik’s opinions and he sux sometimes.

Your comment only reflect the narrow mindedness of yours, why can’t you just accept the alternate opinions of others. If you don’t like reviews here, why can’t you just go somewhere else. As you said lacks of people might like it but doesn’t mean you can ridicule ones opinion. Masses are masses, and we Indians got used to celebrate mediocre ( Eg: Stop reviewing music in musical sense always!).

@damn I do live in AP.But would I dare to give my house address to all those Devi Sri bhakts?Hell no!
Mate just in case you did not notice Karthik still hasn’t reviewed this,as of now.Or maybe I can read his mind!
Also remember one cardinal rule-Popularity ain’t quality

@Hotgas,I was reffering to arya-2 OST,not Adurs.It was posted before you on milliblog.
True,popularity ain’t quality but who the heck told you arya-2 lacked quality?Mr perfect was shit,but apart from it,everything were decent enough in musical sense.And not always is quality demanded,arya-2 wasn’t swarnakamalam to give ‘quality’ music.This doen’t mean I am dain supporter of DSP,but it does mean you rate DSP’s tracks with utmost carelessness and preoccupated feeling that he sux.
One golded rule while reviewing = o pre occupied feeling about the composer,else all we get is a Perceieved opinion of yours,which isn’t an opinion at all.That should answer you kallu.

Swarnakamalam isn’t the golden standard(pun intended) for quality.Neither is Sagara Sangamam.The problem with DSP is that his music is getting irritatingly repetitive.His songs follow a monolithic template.He casts all his tunes in a similar fashion except for one off songs like Atu Nuvve or Karige Loga,which by the way have resemblances to his previous efforts.There has been a gradual yet perceptible decline in his music right from Manmadhudu which IMO is his best till date.
My critiques of DSP isn’t pre-occupied,pre-conceived,pre-supposed,assumed(but I admit my grudge against him keeps getting stronger,album after banal album) for I’m probably the only guy who hopes against hope that maybe,just maybe,he will woo me over.Jalsa was a rare event which convinced me that probably the guy still had something in the tank,but now….
Lastly my perception,as you rightly mentioned,is my review.It is the same with any reviewer.It’s just another freaking opinion.The only difference between you and me is that I give shape to what I thought about a particular piece.As simple as that.
Really,opinions are dime a dozen!Even the most well-meaning of them don’t find large scale concurrence.Who am I?

You are getting it the wrong way,don’t side track our discussion.Our discussion was on YOUR approach towards reviewing.We need YOUR opinion after listening,not the opinion with which you listen to a track,got the fine line of difference?DSP music is repetitive in some instances only,as in beats and interludes in between,his tune always remained original,which according to any damn reviewer isn’t a very bad thing such that it should be given three tears.Don’t tell me it’s YOUR blog and YOUR opinion because a personal opinion can never be argued and here we are arguing about your opinion.Decline in music?what music?The only mistake he did was following a set of templates for composing which though initially pisses off audience but as the time bides becomes their daily humming tune.You won’t accept it but you hummed ringa ringa more than vande mataram from leader or sukhran allah from kurbaan,that’s all i remember.This doesn’t at all mean I support DSP over S-S or MJM,because you have this wierd habit of side tracking our discussion with intentional pun(which sux btw).The only hope and the sole reason I always reply here is that so you change,because with the damn good english you got,you can become the best darn reviewer in the country

I’m humbled by the kind words.But again this is *my* opinion after listening to Adurs.It won’t change atleast for this OST.Let’s see what’s in store from him.I’ll keep your words in mind.
As for your commenting to bring about a change in me-That’s facetious.You can convince a person but you can’t change his way of thinking,his perceptions,his thoughts…
PS:I did hum Ringa Ringa.(I never said it was bad,if you cared to read my review properly.Just thought it was too vulgar.))Hell,I even hum Himesh.I hum anything remotely catchy.

Hey.. I m new to this blog.. I like the stuff you do here. It definitely takes guts to write what you do against the supposedly no.1 music director of tollywood. And I feel DSP is one of the worst things to happen to telugu cinema.. Seriously.. he kills movie after movie with his highly repetitive sound pollution. And his highly predictable, very ordinary “rap” in adurs totally grates on nerves. I just hope someone tells him to go do some actual music rather than collect it(and that too so badly).